Commanderzoom

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  1. Easy Recipes for Nursing Students

    Commanderzoom posted a topic in General Students

    I like to cook in batches and freeze things for later to save time. If we all post easy recipes, it should help us get through nursing

  2. Bipolar + Nursing School

    Commanderzoom posted a topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I'm Bipolar 1 and have been probably all my life but wasn't officially diagnosed until around age 20. I'm 28 now. I was diagnosed with major depression as a teenager and prescribed Paxil, which made...

  3. What are part-time schedules usually like?

    Commanderzoom replied to BeezRN's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    My job let's me pretty much work whenever I want as long I work every other weekend and inform them of needing a schedule change ahead of time. I mean, I can't just call out for the heck of it but say...

  4. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Commanderzoom replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    I work in LTC and some of the residents push the call button for the strangest things. Last year I had a real PITA who was CONSTANTLY on her light. Most of the time she pushing it just for the hell...

  5. Professors who grade based on 'looks'

    Commanderzoom replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If that actually worked, I'd make more of an effort with my appearance at

  6. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    Commanderzoom replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to add that I've seen the horrifying effects of CPR on a person when there's no hope. I was at work (LTC) when the nurses had to perform it on a woman who was already dead but was a full...

  7. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    Commanderzoom replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, I didn't take it personally. I don't even eat at McDonald's unless I'm desperate, away from home, and extremely low on cash. The food makes me physically ill for some reason and has since my...

  8. CPR on a person who is in rigor mortis?

    Commanderzoom replied to ARRR10's topic in General Nursing

    Oh please. McDonald's should not have served a cup of coffee that was capable of scalding a person. They were found guilty of having their machines turned up way too high. She had every right to...

  9. No Nicotine!

    Commanderzoom replied to Brikkz's topic in General Students

    What a freaking waste of money on the hospital's part. Hair analysis isn't cheap. Why ban something that isn't

  10. Hospital vs. Nursing Home

    Commanderzoom replied to WldChrry's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Man, I wish I only had 12 ambulatory patients. That would be

  11. Would you encourage someone who was considering nursing school?

    Commanderzoom replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I would and I have. When I was considering law school, it wasn't for the money. It was because I wanted to help people and planned on working for a non-profit like Legal Aid. I don't think that...

  12. Hospital vs. Nursing Home

    Commanderzoom replied to WldChrry's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    LOL, I don't know where you worked but CNAs in LTC typically have MORE work and a FASTER pace than CNAs in a hospital setting. I have 14-18, sometimes up to 24 residents to myself on any given day...

  13. Why didn't I know this?

    Commanderzoom replied to jmejo's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm scratching my head over here wondering how you could have possibly not known to put the PT on isolation precautions immediately. I'm not even a nurse yet and I know to do that. Oh well, live and...

  14. Have you been assulted as a nurse?

    Commanderzoom replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a CNA in LTC and am assaulted at least once/week. Sometimes it's physcial, sometimes it's verbal. One of the Alzheimers patients attacked me so badly it looked like Freddy Krueger had gotten...

  15. Failed Sterilization vs. Abortion Pill

    Commanderzoom replied to KY RN's topic in General Nursing

    This thread is making me want to send my husband out for a vasectomy. I had a tubal last summer and I hate reading about people getting pregnant after them. I don't know what I'd do if I found myself...

  16. Never seen anything quite like it (the things visitors do...)

    Commanderzoom replied to NurseKatie08's topic in General Nursing

    I work in LTC and have to deal with some real crazy *** family members from time to time. One woman comes in and spends all freaking day long with her husband, who has cancer and isn't all there...

  17. If healthcare reform resulted in salary caps of $40k for nurses would you stay?

    Commanderzoom replied to keithjones's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so glad that people are saying they wouldn't stay in nursing if salary caps were put into place. That's an excellent way to weed out the bad nurses who are only in the profession for the

  18. Health Care is a right

    Commanderzoom replied to headsup's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Your statement ignores the reality that people tend to be alcoholics or drug addicts due to an underlying mental illness. That's hardly "bringing it upon

  19. How often do nurses have sex in the hospital?

    Commanderzoom replied to curiousstudent5's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure it happens but people don't talk about it. I mean, I have a family member who used to be a nun, got involved with her priest, and ended up marrying him. They both left the church and nobody...

  20. First week of nursing school and I am already freaking out...

    Commanderzoom replied to lilbutterfly1's topic in General Nursing

    I think the fact that you're worrying about it means you'll be ok. I'm more concerned with the people who think they'll breeze through the

  21. Health Care is a right

    Commanderzoom replied to headsup's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Of course it is. Everyone has the right to health care, regardless of what politians may

  22. Do you have a back up to Nursing?

    Commanderzoom replied to pumpkinpatchquilter's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    In MO, they prefer something like criminal justice, psychology, or sociology. I don't think it really matters, though, as long as you have 60 credit hours with 2 years of experience working with the...

  23. Do you have a back up to Nursing?

    Commanderzoom replied to pumpkinpatchquilter's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have an AA in Criminal Justice so my back-up is working for the state in some capacity, like as a caseworker for foodstamps & medicaid, a corrections officer, highway patrol,

  24. Dismissed from my program less than a week before finals!!! Please Help!

    Commanderzoom replied to MattiesMama's topic in General Students

    Funny how you take offense to being told you should become a nursing instructor because you'd fit in with them :chuckle. It wasn't meant to be an

  25. How many would consider leaving nursing if they had a similar or slightly higher pay.

    Commanderzoom replied to jean36's topic in General Nursing

    No, I wouldn't. I have a degree in criminal justice and could easily go and work somewhere making at least twice what I currently make as a CNA. Instead, I work for crap pay at a job I love while...